The months have come and gone, and I never got around to wrapping this series up. Which is really not a problem as nothing appears to have changed and the outbreak of debate seems to have died down again. I did get other critical things done like taking a holiday to Phuket with my wife […]
Innovation, Transformation or Stagnation
I hope you had a chance to watch the Kanter video at the end of the previous post. I think it offers some useful insight into the issues I have been discussing in this series. One of the main points in the video for me is when Kanter asks us to consider “what game are […]
New form, structure or just appearance?
Did you watch the Snowden video? Life (and our work) would be more predictable if everything existed in the Ordered Domain – but in the real world it doesn’t. Our organisations, especially when viewed in the contemporary risk/threat/vulnerability environment are complex adaptive systems. When we promote simple (which often become simplistic) solutions we […]
From New Skills to New Science
Did you watch the TEDx talk I linked in the last post? How did you go thinking about your purpose? Why you get up each day to work in BC, why you do what you do – and why anybody should care? As Simon Sinek says repeatedly in that video … “People don’t buy what […]
A ‘New Dawn’ or a ‘Deadend’?
In closing the previous post I deliberately used a popular misquote. The full quote reads like this; “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is […]